Ship designs not being saved

geoschmo · #1 December 16th, 2003, 04:58 PM

If your ship designs are not showing up at all, then mounts are not the problem. Your designs with mounts will still show up at the begning of the game, but the designs will be labeled with "(insufficent technology)" in the design window and you will not be able to put them in the build queue, but they will still show up in the game.

The problem is probably a mod mismatch issue. If you have designs made with stock or with one mod, and then you try to use that empire file in another mod, the game will analyze the designs and anything that is invalid because of components or mounts that don't exsist in the new mod, or are different prices in the two mods will be discarded from the empire file. Anything that is a valid design and costs the same to build in both mods will remain in your design list.

This was intentionally added to the code a while back to close a design loophole that some players were usign to cheat in MP games.

If however you are using the same mod, I have no clue what is going on. As Fyron says, as long as you are using the same mod and not editing the empire during game setup there should be no problem.

Geoschmo

JayBdey · #2 December 17th, 2003, 01:18 AM

I was using a mod, the Star Wars one, unedited.

I know it was only effecting ships with mounts because I tested it by making a ship with no mounts and it came up again fine. I had the game set to full tech from start so I know that wasn't a problem. I also saved the empire from inside the game, so it should have worked.

I also checked all the things you all suggested and it still wont save any ship that uses mounts

JayBdey · #3 December 17th, 2003, 04:51 AM

So no one knows how to fix this? It is a real hassle having to remake the same ships for every game. (some using over 200 of the same component, click click click click click...)

geoschmo · #4 December 17th, 2003, 01:28 PM

EDIT: WHOOPS!

Hey, I just saw what you are seeing. Yesterday when I tested this I didn't notice it because a lot of the designs do carry over and say insufficent technology on them like I said before, but as you say, anything with a mounted weapon on it does not stay with the empire file. That's kind of wierd.

No, there doesn't seem to be any way to get around it. Unless Malfador fixes it with a patch.

Geoschmo

[ December 17, 2003, 11:39: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

primitive · #5 December 17th, 2003, 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by JayBdey:
So no one knows how to fix this? It is a real hassle having to remake the same ships for every game. (some using over 200 of the same component, click click click click click...)

Starbase built almost exclusively of Armor ?

Do you use this as bait at warppoint? It would be a nasty suprise the first time it was encountered, but easily countered by human players. The AI would fall for it every time though.

Fyron · #6 December 17th, 2003, 07:16 PM

He is using the Star Wars Mod, which has 1 kT armor IIRC...

JayBdey · #7 December 18th, 2003, 12:36 AM

No the armor is 5 kT, the ships are just huge (the Death Star is 66mT)

I wish there was a way to save them, I hope it will be fixed in a patch.